Coast Unions Withstand Bosses Attack for Monster Parade.
PAGE NEW MILITANT SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1936 staggering blow to the hitherto victorious maritime unions by the New York Labor Unites charter revocation. He added. Shipowners are jubilant as they (Continued from Page 1) a thorn in the sides of the latter conditions on the waterfront. The abandon carefully laid plans to lay (using to man the freighter Oregon and they were determined to move longshoremen gained the six hour the federal award the employers thereby lockout sailors and longFollowing their acceptance of up all ships early in February and at Los Angeles because it was laden heaven and earth to have day with a wage scale of a cents contined themselves to guerilla warshoremen as a final desperate ex.
with aviation gasoline destined for smashed.
per hour and 40 for overtime. fare, but only in preparation for pedient in combatting the militant (Continued from Page 1)
to prevent any competition be Italian Somaliland.
The Attack Falls Subsequently all other maritime thelr day of the general offensive leadership of Harry Bridges and by the participating bodies. They tween the Polo Ground and Thirdly: the organization of the stand opposed to the great parade May Day parade and demonstraMaritime Federation on the Pacific Coast, uniting all the maritime failed. All the carefully laid plans per month, the stewards 50. 00 perto unload steam schooners at a hase organized the new Pacific with or without the official support Front May Day Committee calle So far, however, this attempt has established a wage scale of 62. 60 Instance sailors were commanded nounce they will wait until the that will take place on May Day tions. This is correct. The United unions in common action and in and all the dastardy connivance of month which compares to the lower scale of 95 cents an hour. The sall Coast unit.
of these powerful unions. It would upon the members of these unions spiring to a solidarity hitherto un the reactionary national official rate on the East Coast of 67. 60to circumvent the longshoremen. If the local leadership reuses street parade of hundreds of thou support to both demonstrations and be the greatest error to give up the and other organizations to give full known. An oorgantzation justly with the employers could not break and 15. 00 for these two crafts re scale of cents an hour. The sale to recognize the new union and sands of workers in order to have to endeavor to give to the pelo Gule vores resulting in the setting her they all called to make money be handled by the local Labor Hot would subsequently actie when the sue fought out as a strike instead Pelle finocuous inter labor dividing Sanizations have already restantes and whose example spread to the coast. In the most splendid man. award all cases of dispute were to to hire longshoremen, but they be transferred to the men and the Polo Grounds, interspersed with a working class character. Mange Fourthly: the question of wages attack, The Central Labor Coun. of disagreement to be referred to in the ports. first dozens of them, speeches and sporting eventstake part in both and working conditions established cils of Seattle of San Francisco Judge Sloss for arbitration. One later scores. Petty violations of We ve Got the Men! United Front May Day Committee gatherings among them many in the Pacific Coast ports, superior and smaller cities voted full sup of the important and at the same the provisions of the award were to those prevalling on the water port to the longshoremen, even time one of the most bitterly con common occurrences, Matters did not work out entirely has correctly rejected such a de unions and also the Socialist Party.
fronts anywhere else in the country. Local reactionaries did not dare op tested gains for the workers, con ing hot cargo called at the ports of the fact that the bureaucrats of streets is the manner to emphasize mittee is doing everything possible Shine carry. In this fashion, and chiefly because mand. The parade through the The United Front May Day ComAnd most important in this connec pose it. The Maritime Federation Lined in this award, was the pro right along while hue and cry the alled in their nefarious and mobilize Labor increasing to unify labor ranks on May Day: tion, the union control of manning of the Pacific Coast voted full sup vision for all hiring of crews to went up against the workers re scheme. They did not rally any of idarity and understanding of its failing so far to set the ILG.
the ships and handling the cargo port as did numerous local untons take place through hiring halls fusal to unload them. But in all the sailors on the Pacific Coast to problems on this historic day. and Millinery Workers representing the gains that resulted longshoremen union had to make medium the untons were able to learned how to resort to a special as stated by Earl King one of the the LL. w, and Millinery set together in favor of one slgan: The officialdom and lackeys of Unions to call of the Polo Grounds strike, enforced by the vigilance of thon being written into the agree over biring and bring of crews. Of was popularly called quickle They ve got the charter, we ve got cal unions to have the membership minating at Union Square, the May an active leadership and by the in ment signed before the federal ad course, it should be remembered, utrikes. They met the strategy of the men. The Maritime Hedera declare for participation only in the Day Committee continues to cart paralleled militancy of the rank ministrator, Judge Slous, by that all of these gains were made guerilla wartare rather effectively. tion stood its ground and remained Polo Grounds meeting and to de with some success, upon workers and file.
which it gives up its right to job only after a whole series of strug Fiftly, and lastly, we have here a action and pledges itself to handle sles consciously aimed at an impared for the showdown the host change their strategy and move for with the United Front These at onstrations. Nevertheless, it would All the time the employers pre solid so the employers had to clare against marching on May Day organizations to support both dem case of the most vicious, the most hot cargo while disputes are remediate goal.
Chambers of Commerce, the Hearst the showdown precipitated by the tempts to sabotage the mobilization be folly not to recognize sinister and the most rotten conferred to the judge for settlement.
Gains Consolidated press and the radio lond speakers selves when they broke of rela of labor organized ranks have damentaly the counter Polo nivance of corrupted high raia This is a serious retreat and it national officials with the shipping calls to mind the fact that Harry Following up these gains the blared out their shouts for a show. tions with longshoremen local 38 been sharply rejected by the larg Gronnd demonstration has as the est locals of these unions. They will aim of is sponsors the sabotage of companies, sometimes using govern. Bridges has once before caused anions further strengthened their own while an important part of 79 on April 14 ment agents as intermediaries, the strained relations with the other position enormously by organizing the plans were concocted right in This long protracted struggle is march in the United Front demon May Dus solidarity, and cannot former operating by the methods of maritime unions when advising the Maritime Federation of the the international union offices.
now settled at least for the time stration and also later take part in help but effect in some measure the circumventing strikes, threatening them to refrain from job action. ncific Coast, embracing all of the Joseph Ryan, the president of being. The shipping companies the Polo Grounds affair, thus try size of the genuine May Day demexpulsions and actual expulsions of It should be clearls understood, maritime unions and counting 18 the had bungled things for and the Waterfront employen age tng, if possible, to cement laborunt: onstration supported and organized ty on May Day despite the official by the United Front Committee.
whole locals, herding scabs to man however, that the Pacific Coast un total of 35, 000 members. Ordinari the bureaucrats during the coast once agnin experienced the power The Stalinists ships in Eastern ports and slving fons were compelled to make this there would not be anything wide strike when he failed to carry of labor when well organized and edicts and aims of the union official them union cards in order to help retreat essentially because of the startling for of untons of a single rote for his outrageous lven militant leadership. They dom.
The Communist Party (Stalinand the very existence of the Pac employers and suck oficials as to combine in the estabolistirent of ready badly discredited on the Pac, namely that they cannot en Polo Grounds celebration the ticare con my tong committee ific Coast unions.
seph Ryan of the International a federation. This has been a long itle Coast. So the gentlemen retirely depend upon the top bureau heads of three major New York represented on all committees of Frisco Local Target for Attack Crimeshurchen Union and Victor established practice by the various riving the high salaries in the crats, be they ever so corrupted, wions are allegedly progressive the But this year the StalinOlander, Paul Scharrenberg and departments already in existence, snitors union. Paul Scharrenbergunce the rank and file workers have leaders of labor, even socialists. Ists are watching their step in this and there is most recent events the Ranier Puruset har Theber comprising the building trades, tie and Vietor Olander, came to the come conscious of the despicable who want a Labor Party; they are stocare create order not to upset 38 79, of which Harry Bridges is o Sallors Union. The mari: and others. But after the lessons rom these labor lieutenants was workers it should have become in Franklin Rooseelt. Yes, they are done in past years. Gone are their get. The Grace Company liner have attained an advanced position the general strike, which had suceded the most Paul Scharren Kreasingly clear that real gains are even outstanding leaders of a major cities of Pool Fascist regainst New York for failure to comply slow well as in regard to con leadership in the local maritime on looney as one of his jailers. Ele and when their organizations the Committee for Industrial or their howls for the fictitious unitwith union conditions but it se En unined. For these reasons unions, and in fear of a rising tide ad himself been expelled from the are made a means for this purpose. sanixation. Dubinskes. Zaritsky. ed front from below. gone their Significance of the Retreat they rad to bear the brunt of the militancy, the top bureaucrats sailors union of the Pacific be cured, with the help of the top un ion officials a crew from ing the bosses game, they are play stupid, false setting up in all the took an entirely different view of cause of his treacherous activities Greut attack and bear it alone. And is But the retreat embodied in the ing a backward game in trying to and dual trade unions; gone much circumstances then, of independent during the tanker strike. Vietor Lakes which was spurlously sup. foregone conclusion that for the matter.
The newly gaited cohesiveness Olander, one of the left overs of presentereement leaves the pact. alvide the ranks of labor on May of the lunatic tactics of the notorat San Pedro it was again picketed is necessary that the maritime un made the workers conscious of the old Gompers restme, required weakened poorleme undons in a Day: by their bope and atm to dilontarhurat PeriodThe Stolinists good his training position. The pledge up subsequently diverted to the San similarly organized and establish a not hesitate to use sue with is never met openly until all the extremely dangerous and can easily Front May Day demonstration. their desires to promote their opby the Maritime Federation and ions, particularly in the East, be their organized power which they kind of politics where an opponent handle hot cargo can become the forthcoming gigantic United have jumped out of their skins both in fright at their misdeeds, and in Francisco port, which the avowed for greater degree of cohesion and non union crews or with cargo traps are securely set.
loaded anywhere by scabs, threat of the employers to force solidarity.
found convention in January, when and the breaking up of the soll turn out show their real progres portunistic and social patriotic line a showdown. The longshoremen The dramatic events of this pro difficulties in every Pacife port. serious disputes on the Pacific darity and the organization at sive color by their open, declared on the war question, in the unions, union considered the Santa Rosa tracted Pacife Coast struggle can While the federation is in no sense coast were in a deadioek, these tained, not only on the Pacifiesnpport or Roosevelt, the Democrat the 1936 elections, their ballyhoo as carrying hot cargo, and, there. best be understood when related in as fully effective as an industrial two gentlemen appeared to admin Coast, but elsewhere. Under no conic president, for the 1936 national for a third capitalist party, eupheditions can the unions afford to elections. These are the Judases of mistically called a Farmer Labor. it ister hele la ted on an examination of the crew time each one of them contain les gree of solidarity and unity of acsons necessary for militant union tion all along the coast. Even as a union cards.
Union Charter Revoked agree to handle hot cargo of the labor on May Day and every other party, and similar objetives reflectthey Immediately the Waterfront Em en guard in future events. In praecame a splendid tribute to the idea Coast was indicted for having cire strike in other ports. That would leaders in these untons may try to wished, casilio de alomtele tete moch The sailors union of the Pacific scabs under the conditions of these progressive and socialist The Stalinists could, if breaking of relations with local flected the conflict between the old point of view of the employers this ers at 29 cents an hour, for having tically every instance we see re industrial unionism. From the need to unload the steam schoon mean the giving up of the very turn this allegedly May Day Aitatr Day Unted Front Committee mech 38 79. The opportunity the bosses school of corrupted trade union si:uation appeared ever more des combined with other unions in the right to an organization.
at the Polo Grounds into a demon anically through their numerous stooge and duplicating auxiliary had waited for had come. Al leadership and the newly awakened perate. The business revival becan Maritime Federation and for hav his article, the key to the problem But as stated at the outset in stration on behalf of Roosevelt.
organizations. But they are re The policy of the United Front training from so doing and are letmembers of the Employers Associ rank and fle militancy. But in its to make its wax, profits showed ing taken into its ranks members remains the organization for com Mlay Day Committee is to endeavor ting the Militants run the ation were advised not to order any broader implications, it is the con new and excellent prospects, but for the dissolved Marine Workers mon action in all the ports in the men through the hiring halls. These Hict of the capitalist owners of in ressed by the enormous government Industrial Union. The sailors unshow, even though organizational country. The establishment of the of the attack. Through them the pitted against an advanced section and on the ships insisted, through conrt litigation. What was the 600 maritime workers is one im.
ly the Xilitants conld stand more unions were able to regulate the of the working class.
The workers on waterfronts pelled and its funds tied up in Const district embracing about 10, practical assistance on various aspects of the demonstration. But hiring of crews so that each re their mions, upon their modest purpose of this action? Here we portant step in this direction. When ceive its proper share of the work The Strike Award (Continned from Page 1) having gotten into the United available and the unions were also out of the San Francisco general award. They insisted on union con carries all the news fit to print, regardless of the opposition of the were brought to identity them. Farmer Labor Party for a genuine xhare as specified by the federal will let the New York Times, which followed up on the Eastern coast, Vergle Terry, and her boy friendFront, and with opportunity provid.
ed to proclaim their substitute enabled to prevent any effective strike grew the special award of the trol of working conditions.
blacklisting by the employers. Na National Longshoremen The give the answer. In its issue of reactionary bureaucrats, there The Terry woman declared that the turally, such an institution became providing for the present working werful force.
Board maritime unions had become a January 31, George West re trent made can again be turned into prisoners had attacked her twice revolutionary party. they are con ported from San Francisco on the new advance.
in five minutes, and that they had tent this time to let well enough other) government the war ques(the South fought it out against the by the quadrennial electoral con lhas not worn overalls in five years.
worn caps. overalls, and masks alone and to act as primly and potion there is no dispute even in industrialists and merchants of the test between Republicans and Dem. Nor did the state produce the masks Clayton does not possess a cap and litely as a little Lord Fauntleroy.
The and the United Front words between the two parties. Fust.
The Workers Party of New York Both see the next war approaching Civil War, not merely an election, ocrats. The puppet show is becom during the drum bead trial of the is participating in the May Day rapidly and Inevitably, and plan to settle. And as a necessary part ing too unconvincing. Consequent boys.
united front and is represented on to have the United States in a posi o that mighty struggle for state ly. the bourgeoisie will have to turn The boy friend claimed that be the Executive Committee. We are (Continued from Page 1)
Torles, of the selfish few of those great task before us is to prevent re division of the world. Roosevelt which opposed it first in part by American tradtion, and that the read the largest reward from the led to wipe, ont utterly the class growth of revolutionary political States Weather Bureau prove that than any other organization of la a ditch. Records of the United jectives of May Day. We, better who would rob the people of thelr the tyranny of the state over the has successfully carried through the army, and then by uprooting the struggle against the state. Two de it had rained three days and nights bor, can fittinely participate in and man; the great aims of social de liberties from socialistic regimenta. In the history of this or any other stituted. In the succeeding years movement. though the time for tack. This pimp did not complain Day and on other specific 18Sues curity and neighborliness. protection, and to oust the soviet from the country; and no Republican cry the bonrgeoiste comoldated its vic that has not yet come, and probably that his clothes were solled, al and occasion. Our Party has the tion and aid for agriculture: White House. They will then go on for economy has ever mentioned the tory, and finance capital replaced will not for some years; or are though he would have been drowned ways held a sound position on the against the corruptions of the show that this means a sound armament expenditurer. Even the the industrialists and merchants. ormist party. People or Labor had he been thrown in a ditch tactie of the united front as a meThe Only Major Struggle or Farmer Labor or Processive Not a single Negro was impanellingses of workers on specific matdium for the mobilization of ment. An admirable program in rederal budgetending of corruption raised Roosevelt in public for his short, for a genuine People Front. und extravagance, and a cessation clerotion to the national de ense. truggle is between imperialis fin site directions Henceforth the only major social Party whereby the beginning of led on the jury which tried the boys, ters, Our Party, unlike the social deep revolt can be channelized into but the Supreme Court of Arkansas The Democrats are abandoning hopeo, Interference with legitimate bngl. and on this subject there are nonnee capital and the proletarint. the latter alternative are already tences on this score Uuless there even though the continued to of toning down the attacks in the ness stricter Judges.
Preparations for failed to reverse the death sen patriotic Stalinists. never labeled Social Fascists. Socialists AS Republican press, since they find This struggle is not yet, however, under way. Indeed, Roosevelt him is a wave of national protest, this make criticism of the inadequacles Aim of the Struggle Differences Superficial that every publicly avowed protesta reflected to any important extent self has transformed the Democratie Arkansas Scottsboro case will reIt can hardly be thought, how tion of friendship for big business over, that the Republicans seriously to some degree in the details of cannot be directly expressed in any the path, and, with the active help Negroes. We must answer this stu in respect to program, theory and Doubtless the two parties differ in the parliamentary donnin, and Party considerable distance along sult in the deaths of two Innocent of the socialists and other bodies heights. They are falling back.
November Every indication is for stical aspect of the great bourgeois an and Democratic parties. Con making it into the labor arty of its by funds and protests. Funds there ore, into a purer form of decisive victory for loosevelt. business expleting the mass seently, the masses, in choosing 1328 Among the min ws are for The struggle for Republican nom The Republican Scramble Hur example, there is more senti between them, have only the quesgue, supporting Roosevelt this year, ant Farmers Union, Box 5215, Mem. clare war prisoners: a rainst war alors Non Partisan Len should be sent to the Southern Ten defense of the Soviet Union for the ination, therefore, is largely a strugment for direct relief as opposed to on Marx expresit o is jockeying into a position where his, Tenn. and protests to Gover and Fascism; for a farmer labor The Republicans have some te for control of the Republican work roller in the publican than which group of branils the shall later it can gather up the leftward llarvey Purnell, Little Rock, Workers Party, as per its official what more difficult, and less reward Party machinery and what this can in the Democratic Party. Never ret to take the lead for four yenrs movement of the maskes into an ATKParty, etc. Our organization, the ing task. They are confrontal with brine purt. rom actuat possession heless, the difference here also is exploiting them.
avowed Labor Party, under firm Nevertheless, even the electoral anti revolutionary control.
sition, is against the slogan and Presidential nomination. Landon, And, Art from this, the Republit acred that relief should be kept as content between these two parties formation of a farmer labor or Borah, Knox, and Hoover are now can frampaign will be run not so low as is compatible with the pre is not without social signl. icance.
WORKERS Labor Party. Under the circumOnly one strategy, enn defent this In the lend, with Landon out in much to try to secure election as vention of too much resent. For one thing the business of go volutionary agitation and organ estances, we regard it as a petty perspective: revolutionary strategy, Protect Yourselves Against the front at the moment. Landon, how to paint continuons pressure on Roose: The Forbicats talk more vernment has become the biggest bourgeois combination, a bulwark, Elazards of Life. Join the ever, is suffering from the too arrell to prevent him from getting baland budget. but of all businesses, and there is a xation. The reformist distinctions ir formed against a developing mildent kiss of Ilearst, and none of too far out of line with the aims of they like Roosevelt, are not willing geunine rivalry in determining who between Friends and enemies WORKMEN SICK DEATH itant and revolutionary working these four seem to have suficiente Industrialists and financlerslevy suficient new taxation to shall have the right to its profits, among the bourgeoisie, between the BENEFIT FUND OF THE class. Nor, for that matter, does a support to mure nomination on nn back of the Republican Party; an attain it and there genuine base, rooted in the mass of as many Itt much more important than this, Liberty League and Farley, between 1881 1985 early ballot. The old line politi ohject which is not so difficult when allationists among the Republicans the elections are a major means for the Supreme Court and Congress, labor unions, actually exist today.
clans maintain tight control of the it is remembered that these aims as among the Democrats. The dit. preading illusions among the mass between Hearst and The Times or trganiwed, managed by and for For the most part the existing laConvention throngh the device of correspond in all important respects rences in general tarife policy be for preventing the inasses from Scripps Howard, merely plays the wirkers with only one purpose bar party movements are fictitious having eninstructed delegates with the aims of the industrialists tween the two parties have disnp. nderstanding what the true issues game of Roosevelt this year, and render protection to members organizations, or rather, paper bod.
elected from most of the states; and fnanciers back of the Democpeared. and there remains only in of modern society actually are. Ex the subtler game of the Third and their families, and to sup ies with some scattered individual and it is not improbable that they ratic Party.
lividual deals on tariffs involvingerating the appearance of dit Party advocates in the years to short all endeavors and struggles support. But the complete position will engineer the nomine ion o a is hardly necessary to point individual backers of the respective ferences between the two parties come. Our attack must be against for the improveinout of tollers.
of the Workers Party on this issue compromise dark horse perhaps out that, words and slogans aside, parties. The Democrats have. It is kids the bourgeoisie in sustaining capitalism; our struggle must be is expressed essentially in its decVandenberg of Michigan, or Steiwer in their concrete significance, pro true, a more aggressive form policy: he belief on the part of the mass for socialism. And for this attack About 50, 000 members orgun laration of Principles and in other Ixed in 350 branches. Reserves of Oregon, the latter of whom has grams and activities, there is at the out this ideological that it is a vital question for and this struggle there is one, and expressions of policy toward conselected as keynoter for present time no important 3, 400, 000 di ference one of the differences in them whether the next Administra only one, political weapon: the rev.
crete manifestations of such a the Convention ence between the two parties. They the means by which the two try to Hon is Republican or Democratic. olutionary party. Our task is to Teatli len ded Accord movement. Suffice that the WorkThe Iepublicans will have some both represent, from top ers Party, while giving full support op to bottom, maintain their mass trases, rather Thus the masses are hindered from orge this weapon. There is no ing to age at entry. Sick benent what more trouble than the Demo the fundamental social Interests of linn any fundamental cleavage.
payments from 225 to 900 to to the 1936 May Day and the arlearning that the only political other that will serve.
crats per the wording of their the big bourgeoisie, of finance cap There was once a day when these struggle of real importance for them nen Hud women, according to rangements thereof, states its sep.
platform, particularly because of ital. The axis of the aims of each two parties faced each other with is the struggle not against one or CIAR aration from the advocacy of the the strategic position in which simply to keep capitalism going. lines sharply drawn, when they mother of the parties, but against PACL LUTTINGER, Monthly Asments from 45 Labor Party slogan in the parade.
Borah may find himself As a con with the largest possible percentage presented themselves to the country the bourgeois state itself in its enDANIEL LUTTINGER, to 10.
Members and supporters of the Workers Party! March on May cesalon to Borah, they will no doubt of its fruits going to the bourn the political representatives of tirety, is the struggle for the over Washington Square North For further information Apply take care to point out that the Re geoisle.
Day in the United Front!
classes to throw of the state, two mortally ovbordinate allies.
Main Omce: publican Party is the genuinely on the central question confront Kether with their 2 and Except Sunday: Workers! Out on the streets for But it is doubt ul that this llluand Holidays liberal narty in terms of the true ing the United States (and every Throngh them the slaveholders of slon can be sustained much longer 714 Soneon Ave. Broklyn, May Day! Mobilize for Labor Solidarity against Capitalism!
Donkey and Elephant Gird for Election Spree tion to enter it in its later stages to power, the Republican Party was to a new device to stave of the mass had been thrown face downward in giving full support to the basic obdemagogs.
largely